Eternals are used in almost every high-end crafting profession, from Alchemy to Enchanting. In most cases it is better to farm Eternals than normal gold grinding, it will give you a higher gold/hour ratio.

As you can see, Eternal Life, Fire, Air are worth far more than Eternal Water, Shadow and Earth. This is based on WoWhead and on my own server economics. Note that the prices may vary per server!

Note:

1) You can do Eternal farming alongside Daily circuits or gathering materials for Alchemy as an example.

2) Wintergrasp is a place where almost all Eternals can be farmed, but be careful: Wintergrasp is a PvP area.

Wintergrasp is a good place to go. Flaming Revenants and Raging Flames will be your targets. Look at the map above to find them. I recommend going to the bigger area where the mobs are mixed, this is by far the best place to farm them.

The Storm Peaks

Besides Wintergrasp, The Storm Peaks is a good place to go, too.
Your targets will be Seething Revenants and Wailing Winds, shown in the map above. The drop rate is lower than in Wintergrasp, but still decent.Note: drops Relic of Ulduar. These can be turned in for Airy Pale Ale, Worg Tooth Oatmeal Stout and much more.

There are plenty of spots to farm Crystallized Air, but I'll give you the ones that will give you the highest drop rate.

Wintergrasp

And again, we are in Wintergrasp. But not for Fire , for Air this time! You will be hunting on Tempest Revenants and Whispering Winds, shown in the map about. These two have the best drop rate on Crystallized Air out there. They are spread throughout the area marked on the map.

Sholazar Basin

Storm Revenants in Stormwright's Shelf have a decent drop rate, too. There are plenty in the area, as you can see in the map above.
Note: while you're here, you can farm Crystallized Water, too!

The Storm Peaks

If you don't want your grinding to be interrupted, Howling Hollow is the place to be. Scion of Storms will be your target, as show in the map above. Here you won't get interrupted by other mobs attacking you and they have a ~30% drop rate on Crystallized Air.Note: drops Relic of Ulduar.

This'll be a bit harder to farm assuming you aren't a Herbalist. This is because Wintergrasp doesn't have Life Revanants - it only has Life Elementals, and they don't have a 100% drop rate, sadly enough. I'll give you two spots to farm Crystallized Life.

Wintergrasp

Yes, we are in Wintergrasp again. As shown in the map above, you target will be Living Lashers. They have a ~30% drop rate on Crystallized Life, but they're tightly packed, so don't worry.

Zul'Drak

In the map above you will see that your targets are Mossy Rampagers this time. I, personally, don't like this spot. The Rampagers are spread out and they are mixed with other mobs, which slows down your Eternal farming. These also have a ~30% drop rate.

Crystallized Water is one of the easier Eternals to get your hands on. If your fishing skill is high enough, you can fish them up and Miners can get them from Titanium and Cobalt mining nodes. Below I'll give you 3 spots to farm for Crystallized Water and 2 spots to fish them up.

Wintergrasp

Your targets will be Water Revenants and Glacial Spirits. No further explanation needed. There are much more Glacial Spirits than Water Reverants, though.

The Storm Peaks

Icebound Revenants in The Storm Peaks will be your target as you can see in the map above. They're tightly packed and have a ~25% drop rate.

Sholazar Basin

And we're back in Sholazar Basin again. Your targets will be the Aqueous Spirits wandering around Stormwright's Shelf. As I said before, you can farm Crystallized Air here too.

Fishing: Howling Fjord

There are 2 major spots in Howling Fjord to fish up Crystallized Water, as you can see in the map above. Happy fishing!Note: Crystallized Water is a random drop while fishing. You will need 385 fishing to cast in Howling Fjord and 450 to prevent fishes/Crystallized Water from getting away.

If you look at the map above, you will see that your targets are Shadow Revenants and Wandering Shadows. Shadow Revenants have a drop rate of ~140%, so you'll get atleast 1 Crystallized Shadow per kill. Wandering Shadows' drop rate is around 30%.

Dragonblight

Your targets will be Deathbringer Revenants, as shown in the map above. The drop rate is around ~25%, slightly lower than Wandering Shadows.

In my point of view, it's a waste of time to farm Crystallized Earth. The Eternals go for 5G median on the Auction House, so it's better to use your time farming the other Eternals. But for those that really want to farm them:

Wintergrasp

Your targets will be Earthbound Revenants, as shown in the map above. No further explanation needed.

You can get them from mining so if your a miner and you see a node mine it because most give them especially in Wintergrasp there's alot of Saronite nodes and Rich Saronite nodes and a few Titanium nodes

you can also farm Eternal's with eng using Zapthrottle Mote Extractor. I know there are gas clouds in boren tundra in the geyser field i average 1 Crystallized air and 2 Crystallized fire. then in Sholazar Basin there are 2 kinds of gas clouds one ive seen everywhere which produces simular as in boren tundra and by the burning tree's there are flame gas that produces 4-5 Crystallized fire. i would let you know more but thats about all ive been to well have fun

Very nice guide. Made quite a bit of money doing this. Not as much as I would have liked seeing as how the price for eternals has plummeted on my realm - Blackhand (US). When I first started farming a month ago I could see 1 eternal fire for 55g and now the price is down to 25g =(

I'm not fully certain whether or not you mentioned it, but the only difference in Wintergrasp if your faction is in control or not, is just whether the revenants spawn or not. When you're in control, you can see them. When you're not, you cannot.

Good job, this look really nice. I mean it, looks like a lot of work and it is easy to understand.
I had to suggest something. You mention other gathering for the crystalized fire water ect, but you seem to have forgotten one profession: Engineering. I make a lot of money using my Zapthrottle Mote Extractor. It can be used to farm Eternals. I think this should at least be mentioned. What would be even more awesome is if we could get a map for the location of the clouds. I can't seem to find a map for this anywhere.
Much love. SalHal

When farming in wintergrasp I would suggest leaving about 10-15 minutes before battle and don't come back until 15-20 minutes after to decrease the chance that all those angry players of the opposite faction to take revenge on you

If you do stick around for the Battle, I'd modify your suggestion to read, "Leave once the battle is done, sell junk and repair, then come back in 10-15 minutes; hopefully the other faction has left by then, and won't take their frustrations out on you." If you're focused on generating cash, then you can certainly skip the Battle. If you're not level 80 and at least decently geared, your presence may do more harm than good.

Personally, I participate in Battles whenever possible, because it helps to ensure that Wintergrasp will remain available for future farming, and because the Battles are one of the fastest ways to farm Honor. I find that even outdated PvP gear is helpful for farming, because it makes the enemy think twice before attacking you.

Great guide lots of detail.. I cant get the upload picture to work, lots of skills and soul putted in. Keep it coming. Maybe you could make a make 5000g in X days by doing X ? Would be awesome, looking for the perfect guide to get my epic flyer.

Hey, i stopped by and had a look at this awsome Eternal Farming Guide, great job, u really put your soul into this. I also got a great spot for farming "Eternal Air", feel free to add it to the guide, i can kill the mobs in about 3 seconds each, there are about 20-30 mobs close to eachother and u are usually the only one there. The droprates are: Crystallized Air x 1 = 50%, Crystallized Air x 2 = 25%. Great spot.

Wintergrasp farming is always unable unless the battle started. When the battle is running elementals won't respawn and with 3.0.8 I even think they'll let the elementals despawn. Farming in the area when it is owned by your faction allows you to see the revenants and revenants always drop at least 1 'mote' with a chance of 3 max. Fire is a little bit harder since there are very few revenants for fire and doesn't have a single revenant as you said.

The mining part can also have an adition, on my mining alt I've found cobalt nodes give crystallized water!

What I would like to know about is lower lvl dungeons where you might be able to kill some mobs with a high droprate, maybe with a friend or solo.

Agreed. It's far more efficient to farm Eternal Air, Fire, and Life yourself; if you have more than you need, you can sell them and buy the other Eternals with the proceeds. I suppose you could survive in Wintergrasp below 80, if you went during off-peak hours and were constantly watching your back for other players. However, you'd go through a lot of food, drinks, and bandages while fighting the level 80 mobs; Revenants have 25,200 health.

Shikamaru, as far as you know, do the Revenants share spawn points with the other elementals of that type (for example, do Tempest Revenants share spawns with Whispering Winds?) Even though the lesser elementals rarely drop anything useful, would it be more efficient to kill them anyway, or to work on a different element while the first group respawns?

In my experience, I've generally found Whispering Winds wandering the snow of Wintergrasp, and Tempest Revenants spawning on the little hills throughout. So if you are looking for Crystalized Air, try looking up!

I like the transmute section, but it might be a little confusing. To me, the arrow denotes moving towards, so pointing from A to B seems to me like you turn A into B, not that you use B in A. Just my impressions. This guide will be very useful for me later. Also, I havn't really looked, but do we get all these transmutes automatically? I know is BC a bunch were rep based. If so, that cound be a great way to expand the section.

Alrighty, Shika, read through it. First of all, it looks really nice and I have to say again the maps are beautiful. Great job!

I have a few very minor things:

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This'll be a bit harder to farm assuming you aren't a Herbalist. This is because Wintergrasp doesnt't have any Life Revenants, which means you won't get the 100% drop rate on Crystallized Life. Wintergrasp has Life Elementals, though you won't get the 100% drop rate, sadly enough. I'll give you two spots to farm Crystallized Life.

You mentions not getting the 100% drop rate twice here, it sounds a little awkward to me but if you prefer it then by all means leave it. Perhaps instead:

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This'll be a bit harder to farm assuming you aren't a Herbalist. This is because Wintergrasp doesn't have Life Revanants - it only has Life Elementals, and they don't have a 100% drop rate, sadly enough. I'll give you two spots to farm Crystallized Life.

Another thing I would do is make the zone names above each map a size bigger and maybe color them. Yes, I should be able to recognize the zone by the map, but for some reason I just wanted to see those zone names stand out a little more. Purely stylistic so again up to you

Lastly, you mention it in passing but you may want to specifically say: herbalists get crystalized life from herbs, miners get crystalized earth from mining (at least I assume they do), etc.

Thanks Shikamaru. Very nicely done and very informative. I have only been to Wintergrasp once, but I did not know that we could farm stuff in there. Going to have to remember that next time. Definitely a big help.

Hi, I may be wrong with this, but as far as I know you can only farm the Elementals in Winterspring when your fraction has the buff, otherwise you don't see them. Might be something worth mentioning if thats true, read it somewhere, can't remember where sorry, haven't tried myself to farm there.

So as most people know, Essence of Wintergrasp is a buff that you get when your faction is in control of Wintergrasp. The buff is given to the entire faction on the continent of Northrend that controls Wintergrasp. For example if alliance guy is in Borean tundra, and the alliance is in control of wintergrasp, then he gets the buff. Now when you are in wintergrasp, and you have the buff, there is a quote in yellow when you mouse over the buff: "The close proximity to the attuned titan relic allows the seeing of greater elemental spirits". These "Elemental Spirits" are revanants. Sound familiar? These "Revenants" (Earth), (Fire), (Shadow), (Water),
(Air). Now all of these will Always give 1-3 of whatever Crystalised element you are killing. In the guide above, however, it shows that there are other things you can farm on for these Crystalised items. You do not need to be in control of wintergrasp to farm these things. They do not always give a 100% drop, but they are generally a fairly high droprate in comparison to other elementals. I hope this cleared some things up, sorry for the length

Great Guide!
But your wrong I was able to farm for crystallized air when horde was in control of wintergrasp it's just that the drop rate is better it seams like when your faction is in control.
(I'm Alliance by the way )

Fishing for Crystallized Water is different from Pure Water fishing for Motes of Water in the "old world". There are no "pure water" schools in Howling Fjord. The Crystallized Water is a random drop from fishing in any other school of fish in the area. Also, to be able to fish in Howling Fjord you need 380 fishing to cast and 475 to stop getaways.

Just thought you might want to add this, as old Pure Water farmers like me might get confused and search for a specific pool of water, when there is no such thing.

Great guide nonetheless, excellent job!
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